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Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon

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153: 301:. It records "his beloved wife Lucie, only daughter of John and Sarah Austin, who died and was buried in Egypt." There is also an inscription regarding Sir Alexander and Lucie's youngest child, Urania, who was born in November 1858 and died on 22 September 1877. The inscription is, in some places, very difficult to read. 265:
Lady Duff-Gordon then visited the newly fashionable Egypt, leaving her husband and children behind in England. She reached Alexandria in October 1862 and, except for two short visits to England in 1863 and 1865, she remained there for her health and separated from her husband until her death in 1869.
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was born in 1842 and died in 1927. Their second child was born in 1849 but died after only a few months of life. Their third child and only son Maurice (1849–1896) became Sir Maurice Duff-Gordon and succeeded to his father's title, becoming the 4th
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was among the visitors. Following the birth of their son, Maurice, in 1849, Lady Duff-Gordon began to succumb to tuberculosis, and by the winter of 1861, she had become so ill that her doctors advised her to travel to a warmer, drier climate.
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Duff-Gordon was a clerk in the Treasury for many years and acted as private secretary to at least one
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Following their marriage, the couple lived at 8 Queen Square, Westminster, a house with a statue of
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At a society ball at Lansdowne House, the London home of the Marquess of Lansdowne, in 1838, he met
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Every foreigner of talent and renown regarded the house as a centre of interest. On one occasion,
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He died 27 October 1872, his will was probated 6 November, and was valued at less than £15,000.
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for two winters, she left her husband and children in England and went on a voyage to the
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A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology
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who was ten years his junior. Lucie was the daughter of literary translator
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in 1860. On her return to England, she was persuaded to go to
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in the autumn of 1862, which reportedly harmed her health.
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Duff-Gordon was born on 3 February 1811 the eldest son of
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Index

Lucie Austin
Janet
William Duff-Gordon
Alexander Gordon
George Cornewall
Lina Waterfield
Baronet of Halkin
Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon
Egypt

Sir William Duff-Gordon
George Cornewall
Lucie Austin
Sarah Austin
John Austin
Queen Anne
Queen Anne's Gate
Lord Lansdowne
Lord Monteagle
Caroline Norton
Dickens
Thackeray
Elliot Warburton
Tom Taylor
Tennyson
Alexander Kinglake
Henry Taylor
Leopold von Ranke
Ventnor
Cape of Good Hope

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